Student

Goal

Progress

Brian

1. Submit journal article, ACCEPTED!
2. Begin work on a grant,REJECTED! .

Revisions being made for Feb 29 deadline.

1. Journal article submitted and feedback has been recieved. The article is scheduled to be incorporated in the IJNVO special issue "Towards Virtual Universities" later this year.
   
2. Grant article submitted in conjunction with Nathan Botts.
   The grant is a Microsoft grant that looks to build a .Net health application for vulnerable populations. My role would be to build the system and help collect data.
   

1. Establish topic for dissertation (with significant progress made on the literature review)

I have a bunch of ideas floating around, but i'm still struggling with what would constitute a "unique" contribution.

1. Narrowed down scope for dissertation.
2. Added to my literature review.
3. Built and tested prototype locally.

Next steps involve:

1. Forming dissertation committee.
2. Developing survey instruments for testing
3. Identifying/Establishing population to test on.
4. Finish dissertation proposal for August.
5. Install software into Elgg / Test / Survey and write up results.

Chris

03/29/08

Still reading papers, summarizing them and looking for more. I keep finding new papers and extant examples on the 'net: 28 or so total so far.

Been slow this last week because I've been watching Edie full time. Jessica went back to work on Monday

I think I've got a basic familiarity with Java now, so I'm stepping back and starting to do some architectural planning now.

Still slowly getting through Wasserman 1994. Slower now that I've gotten into the hard core stuff, but still good stuff.

Wasserman, S., K. Faust, and D. Iacobucci (1994, November). Social Network Analysis : Methods and Applications (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences). Cambridge University Press.

Daniel

1. Continue work on that GSC/SL^2 project about using Claremont Conversation Online as an online hub/gathering space for students

2. After being lost in the wilderness for the Fall semester, I really should finish that friggin' grant proposal

1. 2nd Meeting date is up in the air until everyone's back in Cali (March 1st at the earliest). Until then, I'm trying to gather articles for a lit review in advance.

2. Peter and I had originally worked on that thing with the 'Mash-up' of Claremont Conversation Online and SISATSpace in mind. What the GSC is looking for in the GSC/SL^2 project is pretty much the Claremont Conversation Online with the all features of SISATSpace, so we're revising it with the idea of having something by March 1st.

3. Submit Second Life paper to Lily West Conference

4. TBD

3. In progress...

4. I want to think up at least another goal to make up for my lack of activity (at CGU at least) last semester...

Dolly

1. My first goal is to make an attempt to write a paper on trends of IS implementation focusing on success and failures.

At this point of time, I am still trying to find my research directions and IS implementation has been my interest area. I am now in progress with the literature reviews.

I have yet to define my second goal.

Evren

My desired goal is to get a conference paper at the end of this semester. I am currently working on two projects.

1. Anchored Discussion Paper: I will present this paper at the student conference. I feel confident with my literature review.

2. I working with Kate and Mitch to develop a wiki that would facilitate communication in an emergency situation. The research question at high level is how to facilitate trust in this specific environment.

I also found a second potential research question for this project. This question at high level is what would be the influence of anchored discussion on a collaborative group's cohesion, members' roles, and power. I will use social network analysis to answer this question because social network analysis indicates that these 3 elements impact the outcome of a learning process.

For the emergency response project, Kate and I are trying to develop the system by the end of march. In the meantime, I am reading articles to polish the reserarch question.

A potential second question for this project is " how does time relevance impac tot trust of a material on wiki?" For instance, if a wiki page is updated 50 times a dat (common in wikipedia) how will you know which one to trust?

Jesus

1. Defining a research topic in the area of blogs and educational setting, in particular, higher education

1. I am working on that.

Kate

1. Submiting AJAX paper to AMCIS 2008. Deadline is March 3rd.

2. Submiting a group writing paper to MMP conference to get some feedbacks from the conference.

3. Developing disseartation topic, research questions, and literature review.

4. Editing a group writing paper in literature review, results, and evaluation sections to submit to another conference.

5. Working with Evren and Mitch on emergency responseness.

6. Writing proposal with Shabnam and Agi to ask funding from trandisciplinary program

1. Reject from AMCIS2008

2. 100% done.

3. In progress...Now I'm start writing literature review.

4. 70% done

5. We plan to have drill on April.

6. Done. Wait for the result

Nathan B.

Nathan G.

Proposal

Finished putting references into dissertation outline

Nimer

1. Revised version of a conference paper (accepted as a full paper, to be presented at the conference in June 2008 in Atlanta, GA, USA) for GITMA 2008.

2. HICSS 2009 paper

3. Proposal draft.

Update:
1. Completed GITMA submission and registration.
2. Created communities and sent invitations to join, so far 42 students have joined.
3. Doing more reading related to training for new software, this week, I read MISQ papers by Olfman and Mandviwalla, and Bostrom et. al.
Also, looking at various constructs from different theories.

Peter

Rosemary

Shabnam

Sonya